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If that was the audition, I’d hate to see the show

1 October 2024 9:29 pm

Steven Miles calls his time as Premier an audition

The Coalition will deliver a misinformation and disinformation policy prior to the election

1 October 2024 2:20 pm

We were right to be sceptical of the Liberal Party’s denouncement of Labor’s Misinformation and Disinformation Bill. Having gained the…

Why didn’t Victorian Police arrest Hezbollah sympathisers?

30 September 2024 11:12 am

It was completely unacceptable, says Peter Dutton

Quad: Biden’s hot mic and Albanese’s cringe Moon landing comments

22 September 2024 9:59 pm

There is no news on whether Prime Minister Anthony Albanese ‘put the hard word’ on the Prime Minister of India,…

Ireland ditches hate speech legislation – for now

22 September 2024 5:25 pm

Ireland has ditched its controversial hate speech legislation for the second time in five years. The news has been confirmed…

Is Thierry Breton’s resignation a win for Elon Musk?

16 September 2024 11:25 pm

Described as ‘France’s powerful European Commissioner’, the EU bureaucrat who lectured Elon Musk about online censorship has resigned suddenly. Thierry…

Bureaucratic hypocrisy on the International Day of Democracy

16 September 2024 9:13 pm

Yesterday was the International Day of Democracy. Perhaps conscious of democracy’s decline under their watch, all the usual suspects have…

Pope Francis and the ‘lesser evil’: abortion over borders?

15 September 2024 10:25 pm

At least the cat-eating memes made sense. Over the weekend, American politics has taken a bizarre turn with Pope Francis…

The great green wall

15 September 2024 4:00 pm

Is China’s offer of assistance regarding the ‘Great Green Wall’ in Africa a genuine attempt to save the world from…

Gone to the dogs (and cats)

14 September 2024 11:11 pm

Months from now, the only trace of the debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will be the lingering bad…

Victorian Greens cooking over gas backflip

9 September 2024 9:44 pm

It was always a gamble to see how long Victoria’s proposed ban on gas cooktops would last. After all, beautiful,…

Crime dominates Northern Territory election

25 August 2024 8:26 pm

‘Speckles’, the Adelaide River crocodile, got it wrong; Labor did not win the election. Instead, Australia is wondering if they…

Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested in France

25 August 2024 4:08 pm

Pavel Durov, the 39-year-old CEO and founder of the encrypted social media app Telegram, has been detained in France. He…

Biology bows to gender identity

24 August 2024 10:33 am

It’s a bad day for biology. Sall Grover, founder of The Giggle for Girls app, has been ordered to pay…

Gene-splicing our way to success?

20 August 2024 10:21 pm

Having only recently re-watched the superb Jurassic Park Spielberg film based on Michael Crichton’s book (of the same name), I…

UK puts misogyny and Islamic terrorism on an equal footing

18 August 2024 10:11 pm

UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced Labour’s plan to expand the Terrorism Act of 2000 to incorporate acts of…

Brazil first to fall in the free speech wars

18 August 2024 7:03 pm

Elon Musk has announced that X (formally Twitter) has decided to close its office in Brazil to protect the safety…

The Church of England and the neo-Marxist war on language

18 August 2024 12:30 pm

News that the Church of England has ditched the ‘church’ bit for the sake of appearing more ‘modern’ is both…

The tech giant and the president: an affair of common sense

15 August 2024 10:15 pm

Donald Trump’s conversation with tech billionaire and besieged free speech warrior Elon Musk was full of surprises. While debates between…

Wind energy enters its mid-life crisis

12 August 2024 2:58 pm

When I first heard that China was installing a two-headed wind turbine, I thought the Babylon Bee was having a…

Perrottet’s Covid apology is not good enough

7 August 2024 4:16 pm

Former New South Wales Premier, Dominic Perrottet, came out yesterday and declared that Covid vaccine mandates enforced by his government…

The Gold Coast’s unAustralian ‘view tax’

29 July 2024 2:47 pm

Labor’s cost of living crisis and expanding black hole in the Treasury has led many to believe that they’ll soon…

The Olympics have gone to s**t

29 July 2024 1:11 am

There was a time, not so long ago, when poodles shitting on the streets of Paris were considered to be…

Presidential puppets: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are finished

22 July 2024 11:21 am

‘Inevitability’ – it should be the word for the week. It was inevitable that a tech crash would cripple our…

Democracy under fire: Donald Trump shot at rally

14 July 2024 9:23 am

We are watching breaking news unfold after the former President of the United States – and current Republican Presidential nominee…